The document describes workshops that will take place from March 8-13, 2015 in Hranice, Czech Republic. The Tuesday workshop focuses on the artist M.C. Escher and spatial relationships through interpreting and creating artwork inspired by his use of symmetry. The Thursday workshop teaches animation techniques using geometric shapes and stop-motion to create short films of moving animals. The Friday workshop is an "Erasmus Plus Race" competition where teams from several countries complete art and math tasks at 6 sites to earn points and win a cup of sweets.

1. WORKSHOPS IN HRANICE
IN CZECH REPUBLIC
From 8 – 13 March 2015

2. WORKSHOP ON TUESDAY 10 MARCH 2015–
MAURITS CORNELIUS ESCHER
 Purposes: awareness spatial relationships
 the relationship between the direction of art and the world
of maths
 Theme: Maurits Cornelius Escher, symmetry
 A form of work: interpretation of artwork - team work

3.  Equipment and materials: coloured paper, scissors,
pencils, glue, rubber, ruler, templates, well-chosen
theme any size
 1. Motivation – Who is M.C. Escher?
PowerPointPresentation – a form of the questions and
the answers
 2. Game – choose the picture and the word – from the
presentation
 3. Video about M.C. Escher – you can find it at
website – broadcast from BBC – THE
MATHEMATICAL ART OF M.C.ESCHER

5. WORKSHOP ON THURSDAY 12 MARCH 2015 –
ANIMATION
 Purposes: awareness of spatial relationships
 the relationship between art direction and the direction of
mathematics and engineering
 Theme: Maurits Cornelius Escher, animal in animation
 A form of work: a team work

6.  Equipment and materials: geometric shapes,
paper, paints, crayons, tape for fixedly attaching the
background, camera, a tripod, PC with Windows Live
Movie Maker – freeware
 1. Motivation: demonstrations of short animations
processed in the program Windows Live Movie
Maker – freeware, stop-motion techniques
 2.The Theme: selected topic - Animals
 3.Demonstration of how to work: arrangement of
geometric shapes in the form of animals - inspiration
 painting, drawing an appropriate background -
application of imagination

7.  4. Work with the camera: camera must be set to the
smallest distinction, image size (S), with the flash off
one movement = one photo
take pictures motion of the subject on the background,
the subject is on the table, or on the ground
 5. The work with the PC in program Windows Live
Movie Maker – tutorial
 6. Produce a short film
 7. Join presentation of films
 8. The Feedback, evaluation of the lesson

8. WORKSHOP ON FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2015 –
ERASMUS PLUS RACE
 There are 6 teams of these countries – Czech Republic,
Finland, France, Greece, Poland and Turkey
 Children visit 6 sites and on every site performs tasks related to
arts and maths
 Children run on time
 Which team wins, gets the cup filled with sweets

10.  The sites:
1. - Arrange geometric shapes - block composition,
pyramid, cube
- fold flakes and then paint the flakes
2. - The Tangram - from various geometric shapes fold the
pattern
3. - Sudoku - with illustrations by Josef Lada
Add the pictures so that each row, each column and in each
square was highlighted each image just once

12. 4. - Assemble the puzzle with the help solve the correct
arithmetic operations
5. - Criss cross - search in the classroom the pictures with
characters from fairy-tales, on the other side of the picture
you will find an symbol and number, give the symbol to the
table, find all the symbols and pictures. After that you
became an encryption table and solve the crossword.
6. – Of 16 pieces of small rectangles using glue to create a big
star. The star will be from transparent paper, reminds
intricate mandala.